Category: Quote of the Week

"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows." – Epictetus (c.55-c.135)

"Governments and central banks are going to lose the war on gold because they refuse to fight gold by the one technique that can give them victory: stop printing money." – Dr. Gary North.

"Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn’t blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won’t cheat, then you know he never will." – John D. MacDonald

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried." – G.K. Chesterton

"Why should taxpayers who live in apartments, perhaps because they did not feel that they could afford to buy a house, be forced to subsidize other people who could not afford to buy a house, but who went ahead and bought one anyway?" – Thomas Sowell

"In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all — security, comfort, and freedom. When… …the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free." – Sir Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)

“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The ‘learned’ usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” – Eric Hoffer

"Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home." – G.K. Chesterton.

O praise the Lord, all ye nations; praise Him, all ye people. For His merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord. – Psalm 117

“We believe fear of infection will lead to drastically altered behaviour. It may be that swine flu does not tip the human fear scale sufficiently, but if it did, with the economy already in tatters, the results could be catastrophic,…” – Rob Carnell, ING’s Chief Economist, April 29, 2009

"Amateurs talk about strategy, dilettantes talk about tactics, but professionals talk about logistics." – Attributed to various American military officers, but most frequently to General Omar Bradley

“For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter’s is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you’re trying to breathe liquid methane.” – Neal Stephenson

"The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now." – Unattributed American Proverb

"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility." – G. M. Trevelyan

“If, [when] evil cometh upon us, [as] the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name [is] in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.” – From Jehoshaphat’s prayer, 2 Chronicle 20:9 (KJV)